Keywords: US, Philippine Armed Forces build schools in the Philippines 150416-N-HA376-426.jpg en U S Marine engineers assigned to the 9th Engineer Support Battalion U S Navy Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 and Armed Forces of the Philippines Army engineers from the 552nd Engineer Construction Battalion lift a roof truss for placement at Don Joaquin Artuz Memorial Elementary School in Tapaz Philippines during Balikatan 2015 April 16 The engineers are part of the Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force on the island of Panay constructing two classrooms at the school Balikatan which means shoulder to shoulder in Filipino is an annual bilateral training exercise aimed at improving the ability of Philippine and U S military forces to work together during planning contingency humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations U S Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Lowell Whitman/ Released 2015-04-15 Chief Petty Officer Lowell Whitman https //www dvidshub net/image/1883086 150416-N-HA376-426 2015-04-19 08 24 TAPAZ PH PD-USGov-Military-Navy Balikatan 2015 United States Navy Seabees Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ |